Security Compliance Senior Analyst, Coinbase

• 6+ years of experience working in a technical controls or GRC engineering function, or equivalent experience
• Control domain knowledge and best practices: Familiarity with standards and frameworks e.g. ISO 27001/5, NIST CSF, SOX, SOC, COBIT
• Strong technical acumen: Ability to analyze and map complex, crypto-native technical processes to traditional control objectives (e.g., mapping on-chain collateral movements to SOX controls for financial reporting integrity)
• Navigating ambiguity and complexity: Ability to manage a queue against strategic priorities and shows expertise in being able to handle multiple assessments at a time. You are comfortable operating on an unpaved road and dealing with ambiguity
• Clear/concise communicator and writer: Experience drafting/operationalizing project plans across stakeholders, holding teams accountable, and documenting deliverables to varying levels of junior and senior stakeholder audiences. Ability to translate controls/risk standards out of compliance speak and into functional requirements and across varying levels of technical stakeholders
• Regulatory familiarity: Understanding of financial derivatives is essential. Must have a strong grasp of products like futures, options, and perpetuals, as well as core exchange functions such as order matching, risk engines, margining, and clearing
• Drive for continuous learning: You are willing to learn and apply processes unique to the challenges at Coinbase. You have a willingness to embrace a steep learning curve and stretch opportunities to learn new skills
• Excellent organization and project management skills: Able to perform effectively in a fast-moving and demanding environment
• Clear cross-functional communication: Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to align on shared outcomes
• Experience working with MiFiD requirements

Desirable

• Coinbase stores more digital currency than any company in the world, making us a top tier target on the internet
• Security is core to our mission and has been a key competitive differentiator for us as we scale worldwide
• Essential to scaling is building and running a security compliance program that reflects how we protect the data and assets in our care, to open the doors with customers, regulators, auditors, and other external stakeholders
• If you love working with fast moving companies to expand our compliance advisory program and create positive change across the business, we’d like to speak with you about joining our team
• Coinbase is looking for a Security Compliance Senior Analyst to drive second line of defense technology compliance initiatives across our crypto derivatives services and drive risk reduction through ‘controls by design’ and ongoing monitoring
• Control Assessment: Lead technical deep dive control assessments into crypto derivatives products, services and supporting systems (including perpetual swaps, futures, and options) to assess risk and control design, identify areas of weakness and control failures, and recommend risk reduction initiatives within a high-frequency, low-latency trading environment
• SOX Compliance: Assess SOX, SOC 2 and ISO27001 implications of crypto derivatives services and assess their compliance posture against those frameworks and certifications
• Compliance Advisory: Translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable engineering and business requirements, ensuring systems for collateral management, market data, and trade settlement are demonstrably compliant
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Build close relationships with stakeholder teams including Security, Engineering, and Product to advise on technology and security requirements and ensure excellence in control ownership
• Incident Evaluation: Lead incident impact analysis procedures for Consumer products and services
• Metrics and Reporting: Provide ongoing reporting to stakeholders and leadership on above responsibilities and communicate progress and escalations management
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to address systemic program challenges, recommend solutions and drive issue resolution
• Documentation and Training: Develop and maintain comprehensive control and testing requirement documentation and deliver training to owners over control implementation, maintenance and remediation plans
• Risk Mitigation: Develop creative solutions to prove risk mitigation and solve for complex regulatory problems faced by the crypto industry
• Maintain an industry pulse: Maintain awareness of international regulation, emerging threats, forecasts, policies, and benchmarks